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Thursday, July 17, 2014

The Journey Begins

I strongly recommend playing the "video", which is really just a soundtrack, while reading this post.

I'm about to leave the safe, familiar bounds of the Shire, and venture forth on a bitter journey to a destination from which there may be no return.

I'm registering for my Board Recertification Exam.

Requirements for admission to the 2015 maintenance of certification examinations include:

A full, active, unrestricted medical license. Check.

Completion of 270* Category-1 CME credits in the past 10 years, with 150 in the past five years. Check.

Completion of at least two self-assessment activities that provide 24** SA CME credits in the past ten years. Check.

Completion of one Improvement in Medical Practice (PIP) unit. Check.

Now the fun part:

DSM-5 ConversionUpdated April 28, 2014With the publication of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) will adapt its examination specifications and content to conform to DSM-5 classifications and diagnostic criteria for all of its computer-delivered certification and maintenance of certification (MOC) examinations according to the following timeline:Computer-delivered examinations administered in 2013 and 2014Will continue to use DSM-IV-TR classifications and diagnostic criteriaComputer-delivered examinations administered in 2015 and 2016Will use classifications and diagnostic criteria that have not changed from DSM-IV-TR to DSM-5, as follows:1.Diagnoses and diagnosis subtypes from DSM-IV-TR that are obsolete with the publication of DSM-5 will not be tested. Example: Substance-induced mood disorder is obsolete.2.Diagnoses and diagnosis subtypes in DSM-5 that were not mentioned at all in DSM-IV-TR will not be tested. Example: Hoarding disorder is new to DSM-5.3.Diagnoses that are exactly or substantially the same in both DSM editions will be tested. Diagnoses that are substantially the same are defined as:(a) those that have had a name change onlyExample: Phonological disorder (DSM-IV) is called speech sound disorder in DSM-5.Example: Factitious disorder (DSM-IV) is called factitious disorder imposed on self in DSM-5.(b)those that have been expanded into more than one new diagnosisExample: Hypochondriasis (DSM-IV) has been expanded into two new diagnoses in DSM-5: somatic symptom disorder and illness anxiety disorder.(c)those that have been subsumed or combined into a new diagnosisExample: Alcohol abuse (DSM-IV) and alcohol dependence (DSM-IV) are combined into alcohol use disorder in DSM-5.For these diagnoses, both DSM-IV-TR and DSM-5 diagnoses will be provided on examinations.

I'm so confused.

Here's some more good news:

Applications must be completed on-line by September 01, 2014 (11:59 PM Central Time). Applications completed on-line after September 01, 2014, require an additional $500.00 late fee. Applications will not be available after November 03, 2014

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Hello. I’m a psychiatrist in private practice in NYC, and I’m writing this blog as a way to help myself keep track of all the things I need to know and do in order to practice psychiatry. And if it helps other people along the way, so much the better.